Culturally Jew-Ish. Nonreligious.

My paternal grandmother was a very, very liberal Jew from Hungary. Her husband and children are not Jewish. She ate pork and shellfish. She didn't observe the Shabbat. That sort of Jew. She still had a Jewish funeral (as did her totally non-Jewish daughter...), though, and her brother and his wife (and his ex-wife) are rather involved in the synagogue and the local Jewish community.

I'll call myself "Friend to the Jews". Good?

Non-practicing here, both my grandparents were Ashkenazi Jews who immigrated at a young age from Poland. I celebrate the holidays with my extended family (Yom-Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, etc) but it doesn't go much further than that. I plan one day to visit Isreal but that's nothing more than a notion for the future.

A friend of mine, the only Jewish person I know well (cultural, he's nonreligious) has an adorable Star of David quilt sewn by his mother. It's great.

edited 31st Aug '11 1:14:50 AM by Five_X

Bump!

I'm quite religious, Orthodox, and proud of it!

My dad's Jewish. Does that count?

I think it has to be your mom for it to count.

It does have to be your mother, according to religious law, it's passed on through the matrilineal line.

I'm a convert, Conservative, from Christianity. I have a copy of the Torah at home, and I am actually moderately religious; however, I don't express it much. To me, religion and beliefs are private things. I haven't gone to a synagogue in a long time (which saddens me greatly), but I still try to learn about things, and ask questions, and live my life according to the laws set out and my own principles. The only thing I'm horrible at is keeping kosher...

I do pretty much avoid pork, though. I eat it occasionally, although in my house, we don't eat much red meat to begin with.

Erm, does that count?

edited 31st Dec '11 11:58:27 PM by punkreader

Jewish atheist. I still keep kosher, though

I'm proud that we even managed to get a thread.

Not to butt in on a thread that doesn't directly apply to me, but perhaps some of you could answer my question. Does anyone know what the numbers are for cultural or secular Jews (I hope that's the right term) versus practicing Jews. I only ask because I have yet to meet a practicing Jew in my life, and I very much admire the Jewish religion. I'm Christian, so yeah...

I'm a Christian, but eh...I read Torah.

Oh just shut up.

No one needs your sarcasm.

edited 2nd Sep '12 4:42:46 PM by DeviantBraeburn

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Braeburn, don't try to have a fight with yourself.

edited 2nd Sep '12 4:46:39 PM by Madrugada

But he started it.

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I don't care. Stop it. Arguing with a transparent sockpuppet of your own is not amusing.

edited 2nd Sep '12 7:31:18 PM by dontcallmewave

The true magic of Judaism.

A week late Happy New Year from a non religious in a jewish family. :)

Ashkenasic, secular for three generations...on my father's side. My Israeli family says it counts because we're from Russia. Anyway, I don't eat pork, I love to argue and I'm a nerd, that has to count for something. Also, I never got any Christmas presents, so if I can't be sort-of-Jewish in compensation, that would be really unfair.

If you count Jewish as ethnicity I had few Jewish ancestors, but majority of my known ancestors are native Poles and Tatars.